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Reynolds Pit <br />DMG 112 Application <br />Exhibit D - Minine Plan <br />This property is part of the acreage added to an existing permitted mining operation known as the <br />Fedler Pit, DMG Permit M-85-163, with Technical Revision 1 in 2002. The two parcels that <br />make up the affected lands are owned by Eldon Reynolds and Greg Fedler. Mr.Reynolds and <br />Mr. Fedler wish to terminate their agreement and have two separate pits, each entirely on his <br />own property. This is Eldon Reynolds' application fora 112 Permit to mine sand and gravel on <br />the 34.01 acres described above and in M-1985-163. <br />A new haul road was built as part of M-85-163 TR No.l from Townsend Road, through the <br />approximate center of the 34 acre property, then north along the west boundary, entering the <br />existing pit in the northwest comer of the Reynolds property. Mining under the existing permit <br />entered the Reynolds property in the northwest corner. Mining will continue in the northwest <br />end and proceed south and east. Processing equipment will be set up in the northwest comer of <br />the property and kept on the pit floor as soon as space pernuts. <br />Topsoil and overburden will be stockpiled north of the haul road. The processing equipment on <br />site from time to time will be kept as far south and west on the floor of the pit as possible. <br />Gravel will be excavated to within about two feet of the underlying shale. When all the gravel <br />has been removed from the west half of the land north of the haul road, mining will proceed east <br />until all gravel is removed north of the haul road. The operator will reduce high-walls in mined <br />out area of the pit so that no more than 800 feet of un-sloped (2:1) high-walls will be present at <br />any one time. The maximum high-wall height will be 25 feet. Final reclamation will begin <br />when all the gravel is removed north of the haul road. <br />Disturbance south of the haul road will be limited to no more than 1 acre of disturbance where <br />gravel is excavated to no more than 6 feet deep, and replaced with excess overburden and topsoil <br />from the 14-acre parcel to make a more functional irrigated field. <br />The following narrative addresses the itemized requirements of Section 6.4.4 of the Rules <br />a) Gravel will be mined using front-end loaders and/or excavators. <br />b) Topsoil and overburden will be removed using scrapers, dozers or front-end loaders and <br />stockpiled on the north side of the haul mad. This section will be mined to within two <br />feet of the underlying shale. The floor of this section will blend into the floor of the <br />existing Fedler Pit to the north when mining is complete. <br />c) The only water we anticipate enwuntering is water seeping into the pit from imgation of <br />adjacent fields during the summer months. A ditch around the base of the high-wall may <br />be needed to direct any seepage to the northwest corner of the existing pit where it will <br />discharge into an existing irrigation waste water ditch. <br />d) The Delta County Special Use Permit calls for no more than 20 acres of un-reclaimed <br />disturbance at any one time. We will have no more than 800 feet of high-wall that would <br />need to be sloped at any one time. <br />